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€1.1m Georgian home on banks of the Lee no run-of-the-mill property
Millboro House needs some investment but may well be worth it with a 13-acre site, tennis court, orchard, sunken parterre garden, and shingle beach it could even be a wonderful hotel
Millboro House on Cork s Lee Road is on the market with a guide price of €1.1 million. Picture: Denis Scannell
Sat, 17 Apr, 2021 - 00:00
Catherine Shanahan Pictures: Denis Scannell
Lee Road, Cork City
Bedrooms
E2
A QUICK scoot out of town, heading west, over Wellington Bridge, will take you in no time to the leafy Lee Road, where anyone lucky enough to own a home there has terrific views over the river valley that dips below it.
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At one gig, Tom was spotted by Gordon Mills, a London-based manager who immediately became Tom’s manager and took him to London, changing his name from Tom Woodward to Tom Jones.
Tom’s first single, ‘Chills and Fever’, was released in 1964, and although it did not reach the charts, his second single did.
‘It’s Not Unusual’ became an international hit and hurtled Tom into the spotlight.
After the song reached number one in the UK’s single charts, Tom recorded theme tune songs for the film What’s New Pussycat? and the James Bond film Thunderball.
In 1965, Tom met Elvis for the first time in Hollywood, and the following year the singer received a Grammy award for Best New Artist.
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The Sex Bomb singer, 80, was married to Melinda Rose Trenchard, known as Lady Linda, for nearly six decades before she passed away five years ago. They were childhood sweethearts and tied the knot at 16 after Linda fell pregnant with their son Mark Woodward, now 63. After Sir Tom rose to superstardom in the Sixties, following the release of his first UK number one It’s Not Unusual, he became a sex symbol for adoring fans.
SIR TOM JONES trashed the BBC in a brutal rant after being axed from The Voice, where he described the corporation as a cold place that was run by machines .